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Nive Nielsen
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Nielsen at Rudolstadt-Festival in 2016
Background information
Born 1979 (age 44–45)
Nuuk, Greenland
Genres Folk, indie
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, actress
Instruments Guitar
Years active 2002–present

Nive Nielsen is a Greenlandic singer-songwriter and an actress. An Inuk from Nuuk, Greenland, as a singer-songwriter she plays with her band The Deer Children, often using a little red guitar-ukulele, which kickstarted her music career. The first concert she played was for Margrethe II of Denmark.

She appeared as an Inuk woman in The New World, starring Colin Farrell, in 2005. She also played the lead female in the first season of the AMC supernatural thriller series, The Terror, in 2018. In this series she portrayed a shaman dubbed "Lady Silence" by the crew of the Franklin expedition.

Discography

Albums

As part of Nive and the deer children

  • 2012 – Nive Sings!
  • 2015 – Feet First

Filmography

Movies

  • 2005 – The New World
  • 2019 – Togo

Television

  • 2018 – The Terror as Lady Silence
  • 2021 - The North Water as Anna

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Nive Nielsen para niños

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